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A/N- Two chapters after this!
Chapter thirty-one
Nico POV
It was two days tomorrow until Riddle attacked, luckily, Leo had fixed my watch for me, so now I could keep track of time, he had even added a IM-ing feature.
It was currently four days until the end of the school year, and we were supposed to be making the speech about Demigods at eight o'clock this morning. It was seven thirty now.
I should probably head to the Room of Requirement
I had snuck out of the room at around six to go to the library, I had to get away from everyone for a bit, and I knew there wouldn't be anyone in there this early in the day.
Putting my book back, I shadow travelled to the Room of Requirement.
When I got there, the others were all sitting around eating blue pancakes and Waffles, except the Golden trio, who had gone back to there dorms at around twelve last night.
"Where'd you get all the food?" I asked as I sat down.
"Morning Neeks." Percy said, passing me a plate with a blue pancake on it.
"The house elves made it for us, but Percy was the one who asked so it's all blue." Annabeth explained.
I nodded and started to eat my food, it was brilliant, but what else would you expect, I didn't even think I had eaten properly since before the quest to Tartarus.
"This is great." I said, and Jason grinned at me.
"Yep." The son of Zeus said.
"How long have we got until the speech?" Arya asked.
"Around half an hour." Piper told her, Arya and Jay seemed to be getting along great with everyone, not they I thought they wouldn't, it was just a relief that my friends were being accepted by my family. (Yes I think of the seven + others as family)
"I have an announcement to make." Reyna said, every turned to where her and Thalia were sitting.
Reyna turned to Thalia and grinned, she got a wide smile in return, and Reyna turned back to us.
"Me and Thalia are dating!"
There was silence for one second before everyone started shouting congratulations.
"I knew it!" Percy shouted, "I knew something was going on between you!"
"Theyna! Theyna! Theyna! Theyna!" Piper chanted, everyone was grinning widely, this was a great start to the day.
"Congrats, took you long enough." I grinned, and Reyna hugged me before I knew what was happening.
"What's Theyna Piper?" Calypso asked, turning to the daughter of Aphrodite.
"Your ship name," She explained, "'th' from Thalia, and 'eyna' from Reyna!"
The former goddess nodded, and eventually everyone calmed down, and started to eat again.
"How long do we have?" Frank asked a little while later.
"Ten minuets I think," Jay said, and he cast a quick spell, sure enough, the time was ten to eight.
"We should probably go down in five minutes, we might need time to prepare." Annabeth said.
"Okay, so first up, Annabeth is going to explain about the gods and all of that schist-" Jason said.
"-And then We're all going to take it in turns, starting with me, to say our godly parent, and all of our titles." Percy finished.
"Are you two secret twins or something?" Arya said, looking at them suspiciously.
"Nah, that's just their bromance." Thalia grinned, punching her brothers shoulder lightly.
"Hey! That hurt!" Jason complained.
"One of the mighty heroes a Olympus everyone, he can fight giants and titans, but one punch from his sister and he's down." Leo said, and everyone smiled.
"Let's go!" Percy said, grabbing Annabeth and Jason and pulling them towards the door.
Everyone rolled their eyes, and we all followed them.
. . .
"Hey guys! Over here!" We heard someone shout when we entered the great hall, looking around, we saw the Golden trio sitting at the Gryffindor table, and went over to talk to them.
We all greeted them, and then explained that we had to go up the front to give our speech.
"Oh yeah, I forgot." Harry said, they wished us good luck and we walked up to the front, where Dumbledore was waiting for us.
"Sir." I nodded, he greeted me the same way, and asked us to stand to the side for a moment.
"Students of Hogwarts." He started once everyone was in the hall, "You may have met our exchange students from America, but there is something about them that you do not know, Annabeth here is going to explain this to you, and I ask you to hear her out."
Annabeth walked forwards, and she seemed to have all off the student's attention.
"So as Professor Dumbledore told you, my name is Annabeth Chase, I'm one of the exchange students from America. What you don't know however, is why we are here. We originally came here because some of our family gave us a quest to defeat the wizard you know as 'Voldemort'" cries went up all around the hall, some people even fell of their seats in shock, "His real name is Tom Riddle, and whilst he may be dangerous, we believe we can fight him, and take him down. I have done some research, and Harry Potter is the one who must kill Riddle, but Voldemort has an army, and that army is not just made up of his followers." She took a deep breathe, and I saw Percy give her a thumbs up in encouragement, "Who here, excluding Hermione Granger, knows anything about Greek and Roman mythology?"
Around 40 hands went up, and that was probably just the brave muggleborns, Annabeth sighed and continued.
"OK, I'll explain it for you, basically, in both Roman and Greek mythology there are gods and goddesses, titans and giants, primordials, monsters, demigods, mortals, and there is a thing called the mist. Some of the more well-known gods are the big three, Hades, or Pluto in his Roman form, Zeus, Jupiter is his Roman form, and Poseidon, who's Roman form is Neptune."
"So?" Someone shouted
"I'll get to that." Annabeth said, "All of these stories, these myths, are real, gods are real, and so are the monsters. All of us here," She motioned to the rest of us, "Have one godly parent, whether it's our mother of father. We are all Demigods."
There was a lot of shouting and arguing during the next few minutes, but eventually, Annabeth got them to calm down with the promise of proof when we were done.
Percy walked up next to her, and kissed her cheek, before facing the crowd and speaking.
"I am Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, god of the sea, horses, earthquakes, and a lot of other stuff as well. I am the retriever of Zeus' master bolt, and the golden fleece, I was on the quest to save Artemis, I am a survivor of the Labyrinth, and savoir of Olympus, I am a former praetor of the twelfth legion of New-Rome, and a former member of the fifth cohort, I lead the quest to retrieve the roman standard, and am a survivor of Tartarus, I am a hero of Olympus and now it's Annabeth's turn."
The hall was silent as Annabeth started to speak.
"I am Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, goddess of Wisdom, war, crafts and some other things…"
. . .
Everyone had had their go now, everyone except me, Jay and Arya. I was first.
"My name is Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, god of the underworld, riches, and other things. I am a survivor of the Labyrinth, veteran of the second titan war, ambassador of Pluto, survivor of Tartarus, a veteran of the second giant war, I went on the quest to deliver the Athena Parthenos to the Greek camp, and I lead the rescue mission to Tartarus."
"I am Jay Hunter, son of Hecate, goddess of magic, witchcraft, the mist, and other stuff. Some of you may know me, as I attend this school, I'm in Slytherin. I went on the recue mission to Tartarus."
"My name is Arya Woods, daughter of Apollo, god of the sun, archery, music, healing, poetry, and some other stuff. I also attend Hogwarts, and I'm in Gryffindor, I was also on the rescue mission to Tartarus."
There was silence for a moment, before a very familiar voice called out, "Prove it!"
Bloody Ferret.
Annabeth ignored him, "Are there any other Half-bloods here? If so, please come up here."
A few people walked up, around five, and they started to introduce themselves, I only recognized one of them, a fourth year Slytherin, she was first. Although there was one person who looked familiar too... no, Alex had green hair.
"My name is Emily Amethyst, daughter of Ailuros, goddess of cats."
"My name is Rose Porter, I do not know who my mother is." An owl appeared over her head, and Annabeth declared her a daughter of Athena.
"My name is Jake Hall, I do not know who my father is." The mark of Hephaestus appeared over his head, and Leo yelled out that he had another sibling, while Annabeth declared him a son of Hephaestus.
There were two more people, the last one looked very familiar… but had pink hair so it couldn't be Alex.
"I'm Henry Watson, and all I know is that my dad is Roman." The symbol of Bacchus appeared over her head, and Annabeth declared her a daughter of the wine god.
"My name is Alex Fierro, hi guys how you are doing genderfluid child of Loki over here, I got a bit stuck so Nico could you do your shadow magic and get me back to Magnus and Sam please?" Alex grinned and I rolled my eyes.
"I thought your hair was green?" I asked.
"Yeah, but there was an incident and now it's pink. So, can you help me death boy?"
I sighed but said yes. Alex had helped me out during the three months after Gaia was defeated, and I had gone with Annabeth and Percy to help train Magnus and Alex for their quest thing.
. . .
When I got back a few minutes later, everyone was heading outside, and my friends were all hanging back with the new Demigods, explaining the camps and all that schist to them as they waited for me.
"I'm back." I said, and we headed out after the other students.
. . .
Lying down on my bed in the Slytherin dormitories, I was surprised at how awake I felt.
I was also shocked at how Dumbledore had gone against his word before and let quite a few students other than seventh years stay to fight. Other than the Golden trio, Malfoy had stayed to fight, for some weird reason unknown to mortals and gods alike.
There were a few other kids that he didn't recognize as well.
After giving the students proof by showing them our powers, we had split them into age groups and told them our battle plan.
All the demigods were in a group, then the third years, fourth years, and so on. At least 5 people from each of the grades from third year up had stayed to help, with around 150 kids from the seventh year.
Tomorrow they would give them all tests to see how strong they were and what their strengths were, and they would be sorted into groups depending on those strengths, and then proceed to train until the sun set.
They had even got Percy to ask a Thestral to go get Blackjack and some friends for the battle.
And Dumbledore had even enlisted the help of some people from an old organization he called the 'Order of the Phoenix'.
There was still a lot to do before they would be ready for the battle, but they still had two days, and that would just have to be enough.
A/N- Hiiii! So, the next update will be on the 5th of March
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